Show Notes
It’s been a terrible year for corporate incompetence, misdeeds and thievery. But amongst all this bad business behaviour, is there a way to objectively determine which company is the worst of them all? Yes, according to politics editor Bernard Keane. So he devised a scoring system and applied it to 58 of Australia’s biggest corporations.
This week we awarded the Alan Bond Award for Corporate Misconduct to [SPOILER!]
Keane joins the podcast to explain the logic behind his scoring system, the rationale for Crikey’s final ranking, and why Australia’s economy is so vulnerable to these toxic oligopolies.
With Qantas, News Corp, Woodside, Google, Crown, Optus, PWC, Hancock Prospecting and Lockheed Martin all jostling to be the best of the worst, listen to find out exactly how we split the hairs.
*According to Crikey!
Read more: And Australia’s worst company is… Read about our criteria for the award here These are Australia’s worst industries Who’s responsible for our dud companies? Bad management, bad governments — and us
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